Quotes About Achievement

Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth

si quería obtener lo que deseaba necesitaría dedicar tiempo y estudio. »En cuanto al tiempo, todos los hombres lo tienen en abundancia.

Mi hijo, es mi deseo que heredes todo lo mío. Sin embargo, primero tienes que comprobar que eres capaz de administrarlo sabiamente. Por ese motivo, quiero que salgas al mundo y muestres tu habilidad para adquirir el oro, así como para hacerte respetar entre los hombres.

Hay muchas cosas que me gustan, pero nada reemplaza al trabajo".

That night I was so excited over my success I could hardly sleep

ACTION will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire.

Le sillon du laboureur ne vaut-il pas celui de l'oisif qui a pourtant un nom, un nom qui restera si, par une singularité ou une absurdité quelconque, il fait un peu de bruit dans le monde ?…

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

He didn't like the thought of them knowing he'd been scared. Didn't like the thought of them knowing what a fool he'd been. Oh, to hell with that! Tell everyone! He'd done it! He'd been driven to do it and he'd done it and that was it. That was him. That was part of who he was.

It is less, less than we wanted it to be, and yet it's more, too—it's small and a bit pathetic, judged against the work of the great masters, but there it is, all ours.

I want what I have previously always wanted most: i.e., to be so good at what I do that none may find fault with me and everyone is super pleased with me and agrees that I have no real competition in my field.

What we want our ending to do is to do more than we could have dreamed it would do. Sheesh.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized. As regards the matter at hand (as regards him), I am, at least, above any— Thus thought Mr. Lincoln. But

Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

The runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the marathon. It is only necessary that he runs and runs and sometimes suffers. Then one day he will wake up and discover that somewhere along the way he has begun to see order and law and love and Truth that makes men free. It

If you don't have a challenge, find one

Los creadores, los descubridores científicos, quienes reinan en la política y en la guerra, forjan nuestro mundo. No son como nosotros. De ahí nuestra furibunda esperanza de olfatear algún defecto en su magnitud; de reducirlos a nuestro propio, insignificante tamaño.

To those of you who received honors, awards , and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students I say, you, too, can be president of the United States.

My father enjoyed working hard, and he liked to see the result of his efforts. The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

It's hard to imagine how Dad managed to do it all—to be a top student, a star athlete, a man with a huge group of friends, and a devoted husband and father. As Mother put it with characteristic bluntness, "He worked hard." That's true. George Bush did not waste time. He filled every minute of every day with activity.